BY JACK WARD
PASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH

We are at the beginning of a very special time of the year. The season that begins this week and runs through New Year has come to be known as the holiday season. The word “holiday” is a shortened form of what ancient people called “the holy days.” It doesn’t bother me to hear this time of year called the holidays because they are holy days indeed.

Some of us grumble about the holidays and we gripe about how people begin preparing for Christmas earlier each year. We fuss about all the activities and the expense this season brings into our lives. We complain about how society has commercialized a day set apart to honor the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ.

For many it is a hard time of the year because loved ones have been taken in death. Others have a hard time because they do not have the resources they feel they need to properly enjoy the season. Others, like me, are just Scrooges at heart. I do enjoy certain parts of the holiday season because of all the emphasis that is placed on Jesus Christ.